8 May
2001
8 May
'01
17:47
I'm asking myself whether this has any impact on masquerading, because the masq ports are 61000 - 65095.
nope, I mean in theory if your masq box was REALLY busy it might be an issue (i.e. ip masq'ed ports +ports from system in use >4096) but I can't see to many people running into it (and if their system is that heavily loaded they will need to be tuning ipmasq like crazy).
I'm sure some of you know :-)
ports are ports. linux will grab the first one that's free. which pisses me off BTW, makes attacks like this possible: http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010418.html
- Martin
-Kurt